Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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