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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

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

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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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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.

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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, 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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3rd, 1837

Died: March 29th, 1921

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