Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSRobin 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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 animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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