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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Buoyancy Ecstatic Frame Idea Large Lung Scale Suggestion Top Vehement
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Grouch Illness Privation Suffer Undergone
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Deceptive Distant Lure
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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Both Favorite Fortunate Lucky Seem Star Tide Under
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Known Often Probably Resent Slam
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Botany Delight Dull Most Perennial Taught
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Formative Idealistic Prophet Spokesman
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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

JOHN BURROUGHS

All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

JOHN BURROUGHS

How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHS

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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Hop Most Neck Rite Stiff Upon
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Greatest Intention Small
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

JOHN BURROUGHS

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

JOHN BURROUGHS

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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