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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

- John Burroughs
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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. 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.

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. 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.

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

The 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.

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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.