Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
JOHN BURROUGHS
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHS