We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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