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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for…
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
— Lord Byron
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Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.
— Unknown Author
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An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…
— H. L. Mencken
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do…
— Khalil Gibran
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come…
— Alexander B. Morrison
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The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a…
— Walter Benjamin
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Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why,…
— Norton Juster
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Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
— Unknown Author
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It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.
— Richard Sibbes
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I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership roleā¦The lead goose,…
— Judy Bonds
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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do…
— Khalil Gibran
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