The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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