Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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