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 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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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