Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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 learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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