In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
JOHN BURROUGHSI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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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.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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