In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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