Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSEvery species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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