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.
JOHN BURROUGHSNearly 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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