The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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.
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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 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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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