There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhen Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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 sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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