A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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