I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to 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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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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.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS