Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSFor 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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