You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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