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.
JOHN BURROUGHSScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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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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