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 BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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