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John Burroughs
American
Author
Born:
Apr 3
,
1837
Died:
Mar 29
,
1921
Life
Man
Nature
Will
Winter
You
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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
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
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
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
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
John Burroughs
Writing
Vision
Our
Saw
Catching
Tide
Fish
Left
Up
Reporting
Shores
After
Which
Places
Depressed
Low
Far
Us
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
John Burroughs
Art
Bird
Secret
Bits
Kind
Bizarre
Nest
Weaving
Seem
Betrayed
Give
Structure
Both
Conceal
Material
Traditions
Which
Then
Showy
Now
Now And Then
Away
Violate
Position
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
John Burroughs
Man
Anger
Dog
Beast
Teeth
Kick
Would
Tail
Never
Him
Known
Limb
His
Quick
Imprint
Quickly
Hit
Often
Door
Held
Show
Resent
Slammed
Receive
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
John Burroughs
Truth
You
Speak
Key
Three
Own
Top
Some
Voice
Scenes
Layers
Putting
Always
Juggle
Balls
Five
Then
Acting
Your
Start
Two
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
John Burroughs
Me
Nothing
Tree
Else
Extreme
Top
Fine
About
Delicacy
Remarkable
Bottom
Leaves
Cells
Which
Mechanism
Lives
Grows
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
John Burroughs
Man
Will
Advice
Unless
Earth
Positively
Bad
Take
He
Certain
Who
Hardly
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
John Burroughs
Country
Kind
Would
District
See
Could
Lake
Wordsworth
Produce
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
John Burroughs
Life
Nature
Looking
Own
Lover
Something
Facts
He
Mere
Terms
His
Translate
Meanings
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
John Burroughs
World
Light
Must
All Things
See
His
Experiences
Things
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