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- I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books…
- Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
- Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to…
- Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and…
- The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the…
- The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,…
- [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
- The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more…
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
- To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is…
- The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us…
- Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
- I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
- Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
- That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
- Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping…
- In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as…
- One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
- All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer…
- There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do;…
- Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed…
- The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same…
- Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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