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.
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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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 key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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