I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
JOHN BURROUGHSLiving in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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