There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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