I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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