The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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