Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSWomen are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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 crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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