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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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