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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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 life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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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.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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