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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part…
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no…
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along…
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings…
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…
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Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the…
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one…
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.…
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from…
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know…
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Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
— Thomas More
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
— Tobias Smollett
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I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and…
— William Shenstone
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My hovercraft is full of eels.
— John Cleese
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I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
— Octavia Spencer
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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to…
— W.C. Fields
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In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up…
— Dave Barry
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who…
— Tobias Smollett
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It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian…
— Graham Joyce
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[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the…
— Madison Grant
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Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!
— Sark
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