Leap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHSLife is a struggle, but not a warfare.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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 life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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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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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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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The 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.
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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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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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