Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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