The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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