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 BURROUGHSIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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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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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