In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The 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?
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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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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