The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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