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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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 beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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