I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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