The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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