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.
JOHN BURROUGHSFather knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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