The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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