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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Accident Defeat Earth Great Grouch Illness Loss Privation Struggle Suffer Undergone Want
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Abstract Comoextion Concrete Doctrine Each Man Matter Origin People Quality Revolution Sure
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Affirmative Always Believe Deny Easier Mind Nature
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Life Not Struggle Warfare
Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Feeling Intensely Most People Repugnant Shock Thought
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Advice Bad Certain Earth Hardly Man Positively Take Unless
The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Character Delicacy Feminine Influence Masculine Mind Perception Quickness Sympathy
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Agent Animal Course Develop Fear Hunger Intelligence Love Lower Man

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