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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.

From John Burroughs

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

From John Burroughs

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

From John Burroughs

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

From John Burroughs

The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.

From John Burroughs

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

From John Burroughs

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

From John Burroughs

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

From John Burroughs

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.

From John Burroughs

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

From John Burroughs

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