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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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