Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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