I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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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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