Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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