I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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.
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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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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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