He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Hime Many Outfit Outswim Resourcefulness Some Upon
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Anything Currency Have Must One Real
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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Cheerful Freest Highest Longest Steed Under
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Christianity Development Eighteen Hundred Year
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

JOHN BURROUGHS

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHS

After All Begin Bought Main Real Sold Thing
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

JOHN BURROUGHS

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Confine Susceptive Sweet
On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

JOHN BURROUGHS

On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Sparrow Wood
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

JOHN BURROUGHS

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Accept Fast Go Hold Sole Take Theology Verifiable
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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Element Exhilarating Find Universal
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

JOHN BURROUGHS

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Chalk Clay Granite Marble Marl
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

JOHN BURROUGHS

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Anybody Inward Motto
Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Foster Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

JOHN BURROUGHS

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Greatest Intention Small
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Did Nobody Once Somebody
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

JOHN BURROUGHS

The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
JOHN BURROUGHS

City Drain Pool Supply

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