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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs 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.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs 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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