If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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 secret of happiness is something to do.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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