All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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The 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.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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