Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
JOHN BURROUGHSBirds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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