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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

~John Burroughs

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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3rd, 1837

Died: March 29th, 1921

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