I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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 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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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 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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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To 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.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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