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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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