I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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