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- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
- Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
- Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the…
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow…
- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
- Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against…
- I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so…
- The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had…
- The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay…
- I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
- Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
- Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness…
- We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
- When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
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