August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
JOHN BURROUGHSIn winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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