I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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