Quote by John Burroughs
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in

I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – John Burroughs

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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs

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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 the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Trees are your best antiques. – Alexander Smith

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The groves were God’s first temples. – William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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