Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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