Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
JOHN BURROUGHSUnadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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