The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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