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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.

John Burroughs

The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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All Beautiful Bound Clime Endowed Every Grace Know Master Vagabond
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Happy Make Other Really
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Beautiful Emotion Literature Mysterious Religion Sublime
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Carriage Communication Establish Feel House Love Magnetic Man More Plant Potted Soil Sole Take Root Touch
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
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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Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Development Earth Form Gain History Internet Latter One Surem Quite Theory
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Heaven Kingdom Mind Place State
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Among Dance Easily Expedition Gather Haunt Little Place Pond Rock She Star Take
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Appliance Benefit Convenience Country Enjoy Freedom High Join Safe Statem Civilization Town
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Apparent Conscious Execution Human Ironical Laugh Pride Self Something Sort Squirrels
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly

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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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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