The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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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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