Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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