He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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