John Burroughs

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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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.
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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