I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSWisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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