Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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