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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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 moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS