John Burroughs Quotes

• One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

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• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

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• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

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• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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• If you think you can do it, you can.

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• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

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• I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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• I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

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• 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.

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• Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

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• A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
  

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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• There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

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• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

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John Burroughs (34)

Birth:	3rd April, 1837
Death:	29th March, 1921
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Naturalist

About

John Burroughs was born near Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, USA. He was an American naturalist and nature essayist who lived and wrote after the manner of Henry David Thoreau, studying and celebrating nature. In his earlier years he worked as a teacher and a farmer and for nine years as a clerk in the Treasury Department. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. His chief books, including Birds and Poets, Locusts and Wild Honey, Signs and Seasons, and Ways of Nature. He also wrote a volume of poems, Bird and Bough. Other collections of his essays are Time and Change, The Summit of the Years, The Breath of Life, Under the Apple Trees, and Field and Study.

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