Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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