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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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