In 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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!
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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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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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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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