All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHSJoy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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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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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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