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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Arbitrary Causation Evolution Exceptional Greatly Link Out Realm Seem Situation
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
JOHN BURROUGHS

City Discordant Live Thing Unnatural
When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Cattle Cured Each Fright Herd Horse Induce Object One Satisfied Smell Sniff Soon
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bristling Bud Climate Concept Congenial Grown Human Many Nature Promise Thorn
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Animal Deal Eye Great Little Science Speculation
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
Leap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Appear Leap Net Will
Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Feeling Intensely Most People Repugnant Shock Thought
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Buoyancy Ecstatic Frame Heart Idea Intense Large Lung Poet Scale Song Suggestion Symbol Top Vehement
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Discover Secret Happiness Work
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
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 BURROUGHS

Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Condition Entertainment Furnish Nature Solitude Soul

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