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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
— John Burroughs
Tags: world, power, food, water

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If you think you can do it, you can.
— John Burroughs
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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
Tags: evidence, find, birds, spring
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
— John Burroughs
Tags: life-is-a, struggle, life
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
— John Burroughs
Tags: literature, religion, art, beautiful
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
— John Burroughs
Tags: accept, go, alone, science
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