Nature teaches more than she preaches.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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