Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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