Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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 very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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