There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHSOn the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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