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John Burroughs

John Burroughs

American Author

Born: Apr 3, 1837

Died: Mar 29, 1921

Life Man Nature Will Winter You

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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, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings. John Burroughs

To 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. John Burroughs

Soul Rather Physiological Divinity Regard Ascribe Body Origin Consciousness

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations. John Burroughs

Life Sometimes Will Thought Worried City Generations Am Coming Effect

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. 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. John Burroughs

Business Fight Money Men Live Living Other Unnatural City Discordant Goes Where Place Which Each Thing

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. John Burroughs

Life Old Live Per Am Years Efficiency Expect Cent Americanism

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world. John Burroughs

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds. John Burroughs

Music Nature Strong Sweet Characters Sounds Susceptible Confined

There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly. John Burroughs

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. John Burroughs

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. John Burroughs

Spring Birds Evidence Would-Be Find Even

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. John Burroughs

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. John Burroughs

History People Important Too Our Our People Moral Religious Directed Emerson Attention Development Him Often Literary Cannot Figure

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain. John Burroughs

Strange Old Will Country Out Poets Prophetic Generally Always His After Again Centuries Strain Whitman Figure English Many Among

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. 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. John Burroughs

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. John Burroughs

Life Love Death Man Rain Face Mask Too Immaculate Earth Sight Brown Color Tender Friend Snow While Plain Warming

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial, sociological, scientific - of the times in which I have lived. John Burroughs

Political Others Thousands Rather Tens Tens Of Thousands Like Scientific Been Times Commercial Than Which Lived Activities Spectator Sociological

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