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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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