I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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