I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHSI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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