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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWithout the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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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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