I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHSSometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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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 distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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