A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Every 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.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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