Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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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 red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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