I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
JOHN BURROUGHSWithout 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The 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.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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