The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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