To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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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 somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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