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.
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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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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