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 BURROUGHSThe secret of happiness is something to do.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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.
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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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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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