He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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