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.
JOHN BURROUGHSLike tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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