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.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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