How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHSEvery species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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