The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSI am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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 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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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