Quote #13

'The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.' (p.301)

More from John Burroughs

  1. 'Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.' (p.263)
  2. 'To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter…
  3. 'Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to …
  4. 'In us or through us the Primal Mind will have contemplated and enjoyed its own works and will continue to do so as long as human life endu…
  5. 'Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship w…
  6. 'We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.' (p.10)
  7. 'Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. W…
  8. 'When I look up at the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is that I really see there, I am constrained to say, 'There is no G…

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