I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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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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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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