Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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