The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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 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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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