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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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