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.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHS