A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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