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.
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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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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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
JOHN BURROUGHS