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.
JOHN BURROUGHSScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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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.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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