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.
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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to 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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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