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.
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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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 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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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 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.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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