Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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