To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSSecluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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