England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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 beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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