To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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