My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhere 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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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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