Leap, and the net will appear.
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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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 really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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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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