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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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