I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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