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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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