I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
JOHN BURROUGHSYou are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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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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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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