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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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