Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
JOHN BURROUGHSI 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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