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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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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.
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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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