Fear, 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.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Fear, 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.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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