A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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