Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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