I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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