We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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