I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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 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 life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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