More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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