The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
JOHN BURROUGHSI went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
JOHN BURROUGHS