There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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