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.
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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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