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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWriting 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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