In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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