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John Burroughs has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,…
• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency,…
• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
• The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
• If you think you can do it, you can.
• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
• The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
• The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a…

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