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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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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Bluebird Champion Devote Escort Fed Female Happy Husband Male More Regular
The 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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bee Common Death Dispose Nothing Queen Rival Royalty String Strive
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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Caribou Country Ferity Good Mose Mountain Nature Rug Scarcely Sheep Short
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Age Formative Height Idealistic People Prophet Spirit Spokesman Sunshine Voice Youth
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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Barn Common Dignify Field Grain Guilty Larceny More Offence Petty Red Squirrel
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Affirmative Always Believe Deny Easier Mind Nature
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Family Grossbeak High Native Orchard Rose Starling Ways
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Anybody Follow Imitate Inward Look Motto Try Voice
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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Anger Beast Dog Door Known Often Probably Quick Resent Show Slam
There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree

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