To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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