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.
タグ: only, dead, food, spring

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If you think you can do it, you can.
タグ: think, you, motivational
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
タグ: evidence, find, birds, spring
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
タグ: life-is-a, struggle, life
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
タグ: literature, religion, art, beautiful
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
タグ: accept, go, alone, science
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