In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
JOHN BURROUGHSOur flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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