One 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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