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 BURROUGHSThe queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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