The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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.
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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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