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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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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