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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
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Delaware County
New York
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The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
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We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
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In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.
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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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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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I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
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Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.
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