As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
JOHN BURROUGHSFear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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