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“ The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. ”

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Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

~ John Burroughs

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

~ John Burroughs

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

~ John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

~ John Burroughs