Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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One 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.
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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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