To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
JOHN BURROUGHS
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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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