On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
JOHN BURROUGHSMan has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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 find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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