Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf you think you can do it, you can.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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