The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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