The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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Emerson 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.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you 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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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