Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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