I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
JOHN BURROUGHSWriting 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS