The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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