It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSSometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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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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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHS