Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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