To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSWisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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