It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
JOHN BURROUGHSI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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