The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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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.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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