He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSNo 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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