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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

According American Believed Caused
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Appears Path People Same
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Child Frequently Learned Men
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Any Author Bestowed Bible
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Constant Flux Long Nothing
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Climate Forests Importance Our
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Control Creation Flower Glance
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Titles Honor Men
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Destroyed Treated Revenge Slight injury
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

Simple Inclined Deceiver Lack
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Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

America Barren Been Bitter
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The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

Also Begin Damage Few
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Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Again Best Brightest Built
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Prince Government Dangerous Elements
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

Acquired Approach Away Compelled
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Change Leaves Establishment
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don't know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Excursion Far Fellow He
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

All The Facts Anything Astonished Call
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Men Rise Ambition Attack
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Common Companions Creator Creature
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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Adventurous Armed Beasts Came
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No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Another Approaching Columns Enchantment
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Shrink Offending Inspire Fear
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In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Avalanche Came Danger End
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I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.

Anything Bread Considered Days
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Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Etc Expressions Flow Fountain
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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Determined Devote God Inventions
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Calm Days Divine Equally
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How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Accustomed Downright Earthquakes How
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Alone Baggage Chatter Dust
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Because Character Concerned Merely
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Be Careful Be Grateful Be Humble Careful
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Presupposed Arrange law Evil
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I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

Boy Brother Could Father
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Addict Any Became Because
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Back Bible Get Giving
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Acquainted Adversity Becomes Being
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Ability Accomplished Measure Should
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We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

Control Jesus Name Painful
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A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Causing Coach Correction Give
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Finishes Game Important Starts
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There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

America Angry Change Heart
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Over Right Time Will
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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Become Becoming Best Capable
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I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

First First Time I Have Learned Learned
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Become Becoming Best Capable
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I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Any Background Been Biology
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

Enduring Love Love Is Momentary
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