Leap, and the net will appear.
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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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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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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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