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.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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 common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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 seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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