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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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