We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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 be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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