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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.

John Burroughs

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Begin Blame Discourage Else Failure Man Many Somebody Stop Times Try
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Affirmative Always Believe Deny Easier Mind Nature
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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Among Dance Easily Expedition Gather Haunt Little Place Pond Rock She Star Take
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Both Favorite Fortunate Life Lucky Seem Star Tide Under
To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Better Deed Greatest Intention Small
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Always Among Bardic Country English Figure General Old Peot Prophetic Starin Strange
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
JOHN BURROUGHS

Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Anybody Follow Imitate Inward Look Motto Try Voice
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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Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Again Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Man Most People Publish Shock
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Active Business Community Engage Generation Like Time Tree Trunk
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year

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