As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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