England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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