The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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