A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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