We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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