To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSI went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
JOHN BURROUGHS