Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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