Quote #9

'Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.' (p.108)

More from John Burroughs

  1. 'We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.' (p.10)
  2. '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…
  3. 'Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. W…
  4. 'Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to …
  5. '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…
  6. 'Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.' (p.263)
  7. 'The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.'
  8. 'The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.' (p.301)

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