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From Quotes by John Burroughs
- The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
- Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
- The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,…
- That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
- [T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
- The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and…
- The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
- For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of…
- Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and…
- Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and…
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