How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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