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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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Cannot Forever Go Immense Infinite Measure Nature Plan Scheme
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Animal Attachment Back Bird Distance Find Home Instinct Remove Strong Treat
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Development Earth Form Gain History Internet Latter One Surem Quite Theory
There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Bristling Bud Climate Concept Congenial Grown Human Many Nature Promise Thorn
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
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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Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
JOHN BURROUGHS

All Book Friend Read See Walk Want
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Agile Chipmunk Fly Flyer Ground Helpless Less Proper Sense Squirrel
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Alon Alone Being Concern Develop Disinterest Endow Intelligence Own Primarily Safety Seem Self
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom

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