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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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