How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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