In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
JOHN BURROUGHSNot so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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