The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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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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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 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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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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