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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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I 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.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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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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