The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
JOHN BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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