The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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