The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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 art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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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 geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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