I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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