We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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