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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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