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.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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