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.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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It 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.
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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 moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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