The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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