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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Bottom Cell Eave Fine Hair Like Microscopical Rootlet Top
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Broken Endure Man Mend Miracle Much Only Spirit
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree
The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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 went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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