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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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.
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