Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSSecluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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 motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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