If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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