I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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 beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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 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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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