Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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 America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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