We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS