Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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