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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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