The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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