I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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