I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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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 human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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