Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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 lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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