I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to ha... -John Burroughs

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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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John Burroughs Quotes to Explore

Leap, and the net will appear....
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man....
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can...
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 ...
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...
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soi...
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine p...
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another....
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter....
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost....

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....