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 BURROUGHSI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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 Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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.
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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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