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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
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"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."
"I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like."
"I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course."
"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."
"I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof."
"To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old."
"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
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