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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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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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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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