Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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 learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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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.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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