Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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 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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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