The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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