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 BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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