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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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