The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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