All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHSMan has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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