The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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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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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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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 animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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