I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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