You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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