My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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