As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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