I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSYou are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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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 animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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