I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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 human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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