To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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