Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
JOHN BURROUGHSI 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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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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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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