Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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