Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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 beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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