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.
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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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