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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.

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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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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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