There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
JOHN BURROUGHS
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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