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.
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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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