On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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