All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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