To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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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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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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