Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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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 feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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