Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
JOHN BURROUGHS
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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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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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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