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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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 distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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