I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHSSummer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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