The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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