The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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