How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHSSummer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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 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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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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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