We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSEvery species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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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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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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