We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
JOHN BURROUGHSTo many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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