I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHSI find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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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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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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