A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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 now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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