The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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