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John Burroughs
John Burroughs
American Author
Born: Apr 3, 1837
Died: Mar 29, 1921
Life Man Nature Will Winter You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Leap, and the net will appear. John Burroughs
Will Net Leap Appear
If you think you can do it, you can. John Burroughs
Motivational You You Can Do It Think
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. John Burroughs
Life Morning Refreshed Water Simple Walk Bird Spring Stars Enough Air Find Some Nest Thrilled Simple Life Over Exhilarating Rewards Elated Evening Elements Universal Night
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs
Nature Put Healed Go Order Senses
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 pay, but the gold of real service. John Burroughs
Work Love Service Patience Worth Promises Pay Paper Paper Currency Must Having Price Always Real Self-Sacrifice Currency Gold Anything
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. John Burroughs
Life Winter Soul Fire Air Sunbeam Crisp Architect Crystal Frost Full
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. John Burroughs
Winter World Cause Will Beauty Summer Find Admiration He Equal Wonder Who
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. John Burroughs
Failure Man Blame Somebody Discouraged Else He Until Times Begins Get Trying Stops Many
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom. John Burroughs
Great Before Lamp Tree Window Lights Days Like Gloom October Up Cloudy Room Your Dispel Even Helps Maple Presence
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. John Burroughs
Strength Broken Man Mend Spirit Miracle Only Endure Much
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs
Religion Joy Universe Has-Been About Been Curiosity Keen
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart. John Burroughs
Heart Light Longest Cheerful Goes Human Human Body Body Rider Riders
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. John Burroughs
Winter Better Air Sharper Sounds
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs
Life Day Thoughts Walks Think Too Books Find See Take Read Still Friends Short Want Each Each Day
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. John Burroughs
Life Nature Three Resources Books Say Constant Name Most Greatest Always Least Were Hand Friends Precious Should
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
Religion Mind State Kingdom Heaven Place
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer. John Burroughs
Dark First Pool Gathering Waters Summer Summit Easily Some Haunts Crown Takes She Lilies First Place Rocks Where Place Star Among Her Secluded
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice. John Burroughs
Try Imitate Followed My Motto Voice Never Looked Inward Always Motto Anybody
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. John Burroughs
Death Queen Will Nothing Starve Herself Rival Never She Sting Bees Common Use Her Royalty
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. John Burroughs
World Gave Books Emerson Writer Lifetime He Firmly His Fame Established Thinker
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself. John Burroughs
Wait Value Poet Other Must Rather More He Implies Make Him Himself Greatest Understood His Than Taste Any Whitman Growth
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment. John Burroughs
Nature Entertainment Soul Solitude Ourselves Talk Conditions Tis Commune
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth. John Burroughs
Life Great Me Wind My Life Accidents Earth Has-Been Born Seems Both Struggles Had Undergone Tide Been Losses Wanted Fortunate Grouch Illness Lucky Star Suffered Defeats
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. John Burroughs
Wisdom Telegraph Telephone Come Up Automobile Cannot Railroad
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. John Burroughs
Life Age Youth Sunshine Old Heights Find Spirit Something Emerson Voice Prophet He Spokesman Idealistic Him Does Leave His Gets Formative Which Ever Grows Early Early Life
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. John Burroughs
Sail Sense Down Tree Our Slide Top Flyer Flying Proper More Only Steep Foot He Another Because Than Squirrel Agile Ground Less Incline Helpless
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