I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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