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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhy, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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