I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHSWithout the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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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 life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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