The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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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.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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