I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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