I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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