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

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
Leap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Appear Leap Net Will
The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Crave Lover Nature Observe Unadulterated Unsweetened
Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Heal Nature Order Put Sense Soothed
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave

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