It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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