The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The 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.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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