He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHSI find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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