To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHS
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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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 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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHS