He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSUnadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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 beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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