You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSBlessed 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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