I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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