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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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