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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.

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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Always Anything Currency Gold Have Love Must One Patience Pay Price Promise Real Sacrifice Service Work Worth
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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
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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After Climb Form Ladder Lower Man Pull Some
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Appliance Benefit Convenience Country Enjoy Freedom High Join Safe Statem Civilization Town
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Crave Lover Nature Observe Unadulterated Unsweetened
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Blame Else Fail Man Many Somebody Time
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Break Doubtless Ease Fall Fly Great Height Make Reason Rudimentary Squirrel

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