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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.

John Burroughs

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Animal Attachment Back Bird Distance Find Home Instinct Remove Strong Treat
The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHS

All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Break Doubtless Ease Fall Fly Great Height Make Reason Rudimentary Squirrel
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Active Business Community Engage Generation Like Time Tree Trunk
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Anybody Follow Imitate Inward Look Motto Try Voice
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Life Not Struggle Warfare
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Fact Life Look Lover Mean Mere Nature Own Something Term Translate
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Bunt Cow Feet Forward Movement Oven Quall Walk
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Broken Endure Man Mend Miracle Much Only Spirit
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bottom Cell Eave Fine Hair Like Microscopical Rootlet Top
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Body Coinciousnesss Confer Detracting Divinity Physiological Regard Soul Upon

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