The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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