Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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 now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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