There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
JOHN BURROUGHS
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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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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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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