If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
JOHN BURROUGHSTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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 trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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