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• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters,…
• The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony…
• Earth has few secrets from the birds.
• The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
• To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
• I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be…
• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed…
• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that…

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