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Only Quotes by John Burroughs
- The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
- Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
- In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye…
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the…
- I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the…
- One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
- One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not…
- In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as…
- 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…
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