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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Brad Earlier People Poet Reversion Salad Seer Type
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want

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