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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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.
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