- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
- Endowed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020