The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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