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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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