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 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Nearly 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.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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