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.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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