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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity
Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Crown Expedition Floral Lakelet Pool Secluded Some Summer Summit Water
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Afford Bless Complete Congenial Force Heart Man Occupation Outlet Some
Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Book During Emerson Establish Fame Gave Lifetime Thinker World Writer
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Chalk Clay Country Granite Marble Marl
The 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.
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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Animal Deal Eye Great Little Science Speculation
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Curiosity Joy Keen Religion Universe
Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Activity Comercial Like Live Other Participation Political Science Scientific Sociology Spectator Ten Thousand
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Alon Alone Being Concern Develop Disinterest Endow Intelligence Own Primarily Safety Seem Self
Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Break Doubtless Ease Fall Fly Great Height Make Reason Rudimentary Squirrel
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
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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Country District Lake Produce See Wordsworth

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