Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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