On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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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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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, either with the hands or the head.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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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.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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