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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The 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.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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 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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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