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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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 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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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