I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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