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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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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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