I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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