The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
JOHN BURROUGHSBlessed 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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