The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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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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