The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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