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.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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 have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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