Where 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSLiving in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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