Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
JOHN BURROUGHSNo one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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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.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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