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.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
More John Burroughs Quotes
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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