I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSA sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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