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 BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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.
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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.
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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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