He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you 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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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