Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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