Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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It 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.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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