The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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 geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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