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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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