Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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