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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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