I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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