To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
JOHN BURROUGHSAugust is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
More John Burroughs Quotes
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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