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Quote by John Burroughs
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the s

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. – Theodore Roosevelt

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain

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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. – Eric Berne

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O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge — I have none, and yet the Evening listens. – John Keats

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