To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS