We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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