A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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