Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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