For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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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.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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