We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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 key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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