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?
JOHN BURROUGHSLife is a struggle, but not a warfare.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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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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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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