Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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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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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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