The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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 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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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