In 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.
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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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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