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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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