Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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