A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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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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