The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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In 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.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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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.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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