If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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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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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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