Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSOnly man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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