Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
JOHN BURROUGHSYou are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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