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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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