Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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