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.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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