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- Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a…
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these…
- The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given 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 exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
- Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo!…
- In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more…
- The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
- 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…
- One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
- Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has…
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