The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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