The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The secret of happiness is something to do.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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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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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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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 discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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