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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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 of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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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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