The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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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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