Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSEven in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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 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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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