Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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