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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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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.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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 smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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