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.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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The 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.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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