Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSJoy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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