It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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