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.
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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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