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John Burroughs
John Burroughs
American Author
Born: Apr 3, 1837
Died: Mar 29, 1921
Life Man Nature Will Winter You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places. John Burroughs
Writing Vision Our Saw Catching Tide Fish Left Up Reporting Shores After Which Places Depressed Low Far Us
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. John Burroughs
Pride Laughter Seems Something Mirth Self-Conscious Implies Sort Very Mockery Squirrels Human Apparent
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. John Burroughs
Made Born Only Poets Observation Like Years Then Painstaking
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. John Burroughs
Life Death Winter Struggle Soul Together Long Others Our Insect More More Or Less Prototype Still Northern Human Human Beings While Again Forms Fierce Warm Lands Body Means Fortunate Less Who Many Beings Keep Travels Sleep
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. John Burroughs
Art Bird Secret Bits Kind Bizarre Nest Weaving Seem Betrayed Give Structure Both Conceal Material Traditions Which Then Showy Now Now And Then Away Violate Position
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth. John Burroughs
Man Anger Dog Beast Teeth Kick Would Tail Never Him Known Limb His Quick Imprint Quickly Hit Often Door Held Show Resent Slammed Receive
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 Burroughs
World Country Pedestrian Else Out Kindly Gives Through No-One He Takes Looks Passes Much
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist. John Burroughs
Every Considerable Unless Neighborhood More Takes New Like Dead Make Makes Exhaust Years Any Acquaintance Season Nearly Treasures Flowers Set
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. John Burroughs
Winter Free Summer Drought Like Always Source Green Frost England Cool Comparatively Near Margin
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. John Burroughs
Truth You Speak Key Three Own Top Some Voice Scenes Layers Putting Always Juggle Balls Five Then Acting Your Start Two
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top. John Burroughs
Me Nothing Tree Else Extreme Top Fine About Delicacy Remarkable Bottom Leaves Cells Which Mechanism Lives Grows
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. John Burroughs
Nature Human Nature Thorns Promise Sharp Buds How Climate Human Want Congenial Many Grown
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. John Burroughs
Beautiful Art Religion Mysterious Emotion Without Sublime Literature
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. John Burroughs
Man Will Advice Unless Earth Positively Bad Take He Certain Who Hardly
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth. John Burroughs
Country Kind Would District See Could Lake Wordsworth Produce
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. John Burroughs
Life Nature Looking Own Lover Something Facts He Mere Terms His Translate Meanings
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world. John Burroughs
World Light Must All Things See His Experiences Things
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things. John Burroughs
Alone Man Intelligence Safety Animals Own Think Birds Seems Abroad Only Faculty He Primarily Self-Consciousness Develops Knowing Concerned Looks Well-Being Without His Endowed Disinterested Things
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation. John Burroughs
Life Me Natural Adds Evolution Out Arbitrary Seems Exceptional Takes Because Causation Greatly Wonder Links Realm Sequence
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink. John Burroughs
You Plants Will Birds Marked Locality Defined Tell Distribution Direct Given More He Columbine Look Principles Than Same Where Landscape Show
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first! John Burroughs
Good Home First Thirty Summer Striving Out Thousand Some Delightful Pouring Feel Missed Come Always How Sound Am Bees Get Hive Fortune Each Twenty Away Good Fortune
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge. John Burroughs
Love Knowledge Personality Mind Thinking Analytic Type Complete Synthetic Independent Emerges Entity Mentality Seldom Never Faculty Mere Knowing Operations Because Always Itself Human Which Whitman
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind. John Burroughs
Life Fruit Mind My Life Flower Books Way Record Part Came
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. John Burroughs
Life Struggle Life Is A Warfare
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs
Believe Our Minds Easier Always Affirmative Deny Than Naturally
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. John Burroughs
Good Travel Man Society Good Thing Moss Polish Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Little Thing
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