The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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