We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
JOHN BURROUGHS
Leap, and the net will appear.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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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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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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