To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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