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.
JOHN BURROUGHS
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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 queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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