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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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