The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The 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.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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