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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

~John Burroughs

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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.

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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

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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.

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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. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3rd, 1837

Died: March 29th, 1921

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