Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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