If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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