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 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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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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 red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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