We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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