The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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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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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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