Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe secret of happiness is something to do.
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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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