Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHSSecluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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