The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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 still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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 now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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