The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
JOHN BURROUGHSMy motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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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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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 are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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