There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHSWomen are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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 art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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