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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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