To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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