Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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