Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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