Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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