The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSNearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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