How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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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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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 crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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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