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 BURROUGHSSometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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