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I still find each day too short.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
Naturalist
Writer
Delaware County
New York
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Natural history is a matter of observation it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
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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... 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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
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Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
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A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
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