August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
JOHN BURROUGHSA sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Most 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.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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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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