I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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