Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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 me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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