If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe secret of happiness is something to do.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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