If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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