For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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