All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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