Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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