To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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.
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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