The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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 am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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