I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.


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JOHN BURROUGHS
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
JOHN BURROUGHS
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
JOHN BURROUGHS
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the hi...
JOHN BURROUGHS
[Outside in the rain, paying punters appeared evenly divided between those there to see the bands an...
DAVID BURROUGHS
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing o...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust t...
JOHN BURROUGHS
And by lucky coincidence, here comes a green Mazda pickup with a brown stripe.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If we happened to be in rehearsal downstairs in my room and a neighbor padded across the lawn to rap...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Someday is not a day of the week.
JOHN BURROUGHS
From Queen Elizabeth, who had her own box, to the street cleaners.
LYNNE BURROUGHS
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle fiv...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I think basically it's just bad luck.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
If it is the same guy, he's been pretty busy.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
We got a name and tracked him down to the Best Value Inn in Renton.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned ...
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
He gave up about five minutes later.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
KITT BURROUGHS
When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and...
JOHN BURROUGHS
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling wi...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and l...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds...
JOHN BURROUGHS
It has been proven that preserving these properties increases their value.
BEN BURROUGHS
By preserving these neighborhoods, we are creating a draw for tourists and that translates into an e...
BEN BURROUGHS
We are talking about something that cannot be bought. It's our heritage, and it needs to be preserve...
BEN BURROUGHS
You deserve to need me, not to have me.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her ha...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sad...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide h...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle fiv...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious develop...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books h...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature ge...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS
Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horrib...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrific...
DILLON BURROUGHS
Use the talents you’ve developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as f...
LAURA BURROUGHS
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alo...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'ga...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emot...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their li...
JOHN BURROUGHS
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS