To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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 key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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