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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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