In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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 secret of happiness is something to do.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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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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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 pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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