The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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