Nature teaches more than she preaches.
JOHN BURROUGHSI am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Some 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.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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