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 BURROUGHSNature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The 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.
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