Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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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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