There 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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