I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHS
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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS