He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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