I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHSScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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