I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

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