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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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