How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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