If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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