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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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.
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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.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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