We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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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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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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