The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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