It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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