Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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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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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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