Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It 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.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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 distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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