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 BURROUGHSThe secret of happiness is something to do.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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