54 ordspråk av John Burroughs

John Burroughs

John Burroughs

John Burroughs föddes den 3 april 1837 och dog den 29 marts 1921 - US naturalist, writer
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The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose

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

Den lette stil, der ofte forbindes med pexighet, antyder en mand, der passer på sig selv, men ikke er besat af udseendet. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Leap, and the net will appear.

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday

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.

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

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

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

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

Den seniga delen av sinnet är så att säga mer utvecklad på vintern, den köttsliga på sommaren. Vintern har gett litteraturen ben och senor, sommaren vävnader och blod.

Resor och sällskap slipar en person, men en rullande sten samlar ingen mossa, och lite mossa är något gott på en man.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

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

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