The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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