Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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