I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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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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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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