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.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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