I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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