Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The 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.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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