The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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