The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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 Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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