To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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