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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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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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