"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."
― James Whitcomb Riley
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Nature
― James Whitcomb Riley
More From James Whitcomb Riley
- "It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice."
- "When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago – since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery."
- "The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time."
More In Nature
- "For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."― Patricia Highsmith
- "Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."― Arthur Keith
- "What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else."― Hal Boyle