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.
JOHN BURROUGHSOnly man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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 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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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