The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
JOHN BURROUGHSI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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