The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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