Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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