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.
JOHN BURROUGHSNo one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS