I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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.
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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 treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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