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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.

John Burroughs

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Beautiful Emotion Literature Mysterious Religion Sublime
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
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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Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work
The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Different Love May Nature Science Thing Together Two
Why, 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.
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Cheap Common Everyday Invent Machinery Nature Universal Vulgar
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Arbitrary Causation Evolution Exceptional Greatly Link Out Realm Seem Situation
It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Development Earth Form Gain History Internet Latter One Surem Quite Theory
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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After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Condition Entertainment Furnish Nature Solitude Soul
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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Afford Bless Complete Congenial Force Heart Man Occupation Outlet Some
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Animal Depend Hime Home Many Outfit Outswim Reason Resourcefulness Some Time Upon
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Active Business Community Engage Generation Like Time Tree Trunk
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Apparent Conscious Execution Human Ironical Laugh Pride Self Something Sort Squirrels

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