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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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