Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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