The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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 lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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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.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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