A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
JOHN BURROUGHSSecluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Nearly 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.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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