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One Quotes by John Burroughs
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to…
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
- Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
- The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,…
- [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
- 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…
- One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
- When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on…
- 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…
- One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
- 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…
- One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
- Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed…
- One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
- The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd…
- The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same…
- One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
- Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into…
- One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the…
- Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and…
- To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
- One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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