The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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 discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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