All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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 city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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