A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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 life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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