I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.John Burroughs
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
John Burroughs
Nature comes home to one most when he is at home the stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. One's own landscape comes in time to be a sort of outlying part of himself he has sowed himself broadcast upon it, and it reflects his own moods and feelings he is sensitive to the verge of the horizon cut those trees, and he bleeds mar those hills, and he suffers. How has the farmer planted himself in his fields builded himself into his stone walls, and evoked the sympathy of the hills by his struggle This home feeling, this domestication of nature, is important to the observer. This is the birdlime with which he catches the bird this is the private door that admits him behind the scenes.
John Burroughs
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
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs
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