Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature teaches more than she preaches.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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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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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
JOHN BURROUGHS