If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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