John Burroughs Short Quotes

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I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

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Originality is Nature expressed, imitation is Nature suppressed.

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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

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Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

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We study botany so hard that we miss the charm of the flower entirely.

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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

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One may return to the place of his birth.
He cannot go back to his youth.

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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

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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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The marble face of Death! What unspeakable repose and silence there is in it!

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We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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Evolution is not a mere process; it is a progress; it is not a circle, but a spiral.

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I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

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Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...

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The youth of the earth is in the soil and in the trees and verdure that springs from it.

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Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

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The love of nature is different from the love of science, though the two may go together.

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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world.

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing; to imagine your facts is quite another.

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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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I saw the moon run over a poor little star to-night. I suppose it will never open its eye again.

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Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best....

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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

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I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....

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At their everlasting tasks, but biology is as a flower that cometh in a day and on the morrow is cut down.

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