The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
JOHN BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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