It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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