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.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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