Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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