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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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