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. The Summit of the Yearspor John Burroughs - 1913 - 297 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1913 - 878 páginas
...this age that Mr. Burroughs finds the simple joy of living as entrancing as ever and is able to write: "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts...want to read, and all the friends I want to see." He need have no fear that any of his readers will wish that he had stopped at the Psalmist's boundary;... | |
| 1909 - 252 páginas
...observer of nature, and a filosofer of her academy, can say at the summit of the years : I still find the day too short for all the thoughts I •want to think,...I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. I have loved... | |
| Mary Griffin Webb, Edna Lenore Webb - 1914 - 642 páginas
...moving. The vital currents, like mountain streams, tend to rejuvenate themselves as they flow. . . Nature is always young, and there is no greater felicity...want to read, and all the friends I want to see." Someone has said that poets are born, not made. We have already said that Mr. Burroughs is a born naturalist.... | |
| Martha Bolton - 2003 - 180 páginas
...withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ¿g. Л ^ George Washington Í still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, ail the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John... | |
| Jennifer Leigh Selig - 2004 - 332 páginas
...naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. Abraham Maslow I still fmd each day too short for all the thoughts I want to...I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and wonder of the world. I hardly know which... | |
| Sharon Lovejoy - 2004 - 316 páginas
...joys and pleasures. A century ago, the naturalist John Burroughs wrote, "I still find each day to be too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all...want to read, and all the friends I want to see." I agree with Burroughs, but I need to add another sentence to his ruminations on time. I still find... | |
| 153 páginas
...Elie Wiesel So many worlds, so much to do. So little done, such things to be. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson I still find each day too short for all the thoughts...I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. - John Burroughs... | |
| Rex Hickox - 2006 - 140 páginas
...calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of his life is a miracle and a mystery. HG Wells I find each day too short for all the thoughts I want...I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs Conscious of the fact that I cannot separate myself from the time in which I am living,... | |
| M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 páginas
...let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts...want to read, and all the friends I want to see." — John Burroughs "Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors." — John F. Kennedy... | |
| Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 páginas
...matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. — BUDDHA I still find each day too short for all the thoughts...I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. — JOHN BURROUGHS, AMERICAN NATURALIST AND ESSAYIST I sometimes think of what future historians will... | |
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