Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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