The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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