The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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