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.
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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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