There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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?
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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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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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