I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The 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.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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