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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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