Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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