England 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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