The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
JOHN BURROUGHSWe now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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 have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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