Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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