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Woods Quotes by John Burroughs
- 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…
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
- 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…
- 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…
- Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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