England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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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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