A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSNearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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