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 BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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