The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

John Burroughs
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  1. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

  2. I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  3. The secret of happiness is something to do

  4. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

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