How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs Copy Share
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs Copy Share
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most… — John Burroughs Copy Share
