He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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