Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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