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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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