The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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 secret of happiness is something to do.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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