My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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 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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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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.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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