There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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