You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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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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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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