Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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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.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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