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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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England 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.
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