To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
JOHN BURROUGHSNo 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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