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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhere country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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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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.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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