He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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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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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.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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