A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSA sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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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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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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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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