When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature teaches more than she preaches.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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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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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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