I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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