I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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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.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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