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.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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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.
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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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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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