Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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 fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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