Death by starvation is slow.

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No man can be stronger than his destiny.

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I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

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For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

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Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

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