To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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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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