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 BURROUGHSI crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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