The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHS
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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The 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.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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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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