There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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