The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
JOHN BURROUGHSUnadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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