The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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