Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
JOHN BURROUGHSWithout the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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