Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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