The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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