In 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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