There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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