"Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance."
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"Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."
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"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
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"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures."
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"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
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"If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature."
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"No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"
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"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
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"I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings."
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"For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California."
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"I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds."
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"Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation."
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"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it."
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"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?"
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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."
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