Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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