I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
More John Burroughs Quotes
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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