August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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