We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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