The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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