Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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