Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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.
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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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