England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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