We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSYou are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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