I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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