We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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