Tom Brown Jr. Quotes

#1. We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

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#2. A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

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#3. Immerse yourself in nature's symphony
and let your senses burst with joy.

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#4. If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.

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#5. Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

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#6. Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

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#7. The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

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#8. We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

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#9. A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

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#10. I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

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#11. This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

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#12. Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

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