How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHSTo 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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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 treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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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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.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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