The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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Whitman 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.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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