The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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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 are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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