"Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd."

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Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

Edwin Way Teale

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“Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.”

Source : Courtney Milan (2011). “Unveiled”, p.25, HQN Books
“I believe God gives us special grace to help us in moments of persecution. But I also believe he often uses his own words deposited in our hearts. We "must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.”
“Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.”
“You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.”
“Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?”
“A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.”

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