I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS