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 BURROUGHSSome of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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