I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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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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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS