The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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 queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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