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When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.

~John Burroughs

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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3rd, 1837

Died: March 29th, 1921

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