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 building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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 common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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