Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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